Sentences with phrase «after the last ice age there»

Hayhoe: To put it in perspective, after the last Ice Age there was about a thousand years for the world to warm.

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«Prior to the last Ice Age, there was a clear distinction in the isotope values for all three species; after this period, there is a clear overlap — and this suggests that the habitat of deer species had shrunk or there was and overlap in the diets of the different deer species,» says Dorothée Drucker from the Biogeology department, who examined the collagen.

Add in the fact that the thickness of the ice, which is much harder to measure, is estimated to have fallen by half since 1979, when satellite records began, and there is probably less ice floating on the Arctic Ocean now than at any time since a particularly warm period 8,000 years ago, soon after the last ice age.

Regardless how imprecise dating of individual events is, there was period when temperature was already elevated after the last ice age and CO2 was not yet elevated.